JALALABAD (Pajhwok): A number of Afghan traders have shut the Torkham gate against exports after their spare parts loaded vehicles remained parked in western Herat province for months, causing them ‘huge’ losses.
The traders said the Ministry of Finance had stopped hundreds of their trucks full of spare parts in Herat province, inflicting huge losses on them.
On Thursday, the protesting businesspeople also erected a tent in Torkham border town in Momandara district of eastern Nangarhar.
Khalil Rahman Shinwari, one of the traders, said 1,700 disassembling vehicles for spare parts in containers . . .
